Word: supplanting
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...aims is to "publicize and counteract the propaganda to supplant American democracy by a philosophy and form of government contradictory to our heritage...
Last week Nazis short-waved to the U. S. the propaganda that Duff Cooper had booted ace Commentator J. B. Priestley off the air waves. Alleged reason: Priestley was threatening to supplant Duff Cooper as headman of the Ministry of Information. Truth was: although Priestley had not abandoned his thrice-weekly broadcasts to Canada and the U. S., he had given up his Sunday-night talks to the radio listeners of England...
...Senate and House Military Affairs Committees approved legislation authorizing states to create home defense units that would supplant National Guard units mobilized into active service...
...Manhattan's young Museum of Costume Art planned enlargement of its membership and its historical library to supplant the vast research facilities of Paris, raised $5,800 for the project at a cocktail party last week...
...Hopkins frame, the burning Hopkins mind, the President found a quality and a kinship which he found in no other human being. Alone among the men around The Man, Harry Hopkins can (but does not) boast that he is both trusted and used without stint. His latest use: to supplant Jim Farley, command the axmen realigning the Democratic Party for the Third Term campaign and thereafter...